Decorative article featuring a microscopic periodic pattern and methods of making the same

A decorative article comprising:

• a microsphere layer comprising a plurality of microspheres, wherein the microsphere layer comprises a monolayer of microspheres and wherein the plurality of microspheres are in a microscopic periodic pattern and wherein the microspheres consist of at least one of glass, ceramic or glass ceramic, wherein the ceramic consists of oxide materials selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, boron oxide, phosphorous oxide, aluminum oxide, germanium oxide, tin oxide, zinc oxide, bismuth oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, lanthanide oxides, barium oxide, strontium oxide, and combinations thereof, nonoxide materials selected from the group consisting of carbide, boride, nitride and silicide, and combinations thereof, or combinations of the oxide materials and nonoxide materials thereof, wherein the glass ceramic is based on lithium disilicate;
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• a bead bonding layer disposed on the microsphere layer wherein the beading bonding layer comprises an organic polymeric material,
• wherein the plurality of microspheres are partially embedded in the bead bonding layer wherein the plurality of microspheres are partially embedded to at least 50% of the microsphere diameter in the bead bonding layer;
• and wherein the plurality of microspheres covers more than 10% and less than 50% of the surface of the bead bonding layer, and wherein the surface of the decorative article comprising the exposed microspheres has a coefficient of friction less than 0.3 as measured by the Method for Coefficient of Friction Testing.